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Science Magazine Podcast

Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how doctors can use a public repository, the Mexican Biobank, to guide patient care; and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain’s plumbing shows promise for Alzheimer’s disease. Next on the show, it’s tough to calculate when and where deorbiting spacecraft might enter the upper atmosphere and then eventually hit the ground. Benjamin Fernando, a seismologist and planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that sonic booms created by fast-moving space debris shake seismic sensors, giving clues to angle of re-entry, breakup dynamics, and final location. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the academic arm of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City, and one of America's leading research medical schools.

0:11.1

What are researchers on heart health working on to transform patient care and prolong lives?

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Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine

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at Mount Sinai in partnership with science. Visit our website at www.science.org and search for

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Frontiers of Medical Research, dash heart. The Icon School of Medicine in Mount Sinai, we find a way.

0:34.8

This podcast is supported by Jien Jian Zhao Tong, Liverpool University,

0:39.3

where East meets West to redefine the future of learning and discovery. This year, we're turning

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20. Celebrate with us as we honor two decades of breakthroughs, cross-cultural exchange,

0:50.8

and world-changing research. Curious about how we're making waves,

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join the party at www.xjtlu.edu.

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This is the science podcast for January 22nd,

1:08.0

2026. I'm Sarah Crespi. First this week, stories from new senior

1:13.6

biomedicine reporter Jenny Smith, including one on auto brewery syndrome, where microbes inside

1:19.9

the human gut make too much alcohol, how doctors can use the Mexican biobank to guide treatment,

1:25.4

and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain's plumbing

1:28.5

showed promise for Alzheimer's disease.

1:31.4

Next on the show, it's tough to calculate when and where deorbiting spacecraft might enter

1:36.3

the upper atmosphere and eventually land.

1:39.7

Researcher Benjamin Fernando showed that sonic booms created by fast-moving space debris, shake seismic sensors,

1:46.6

giving clues to angle of reentry, breakup dynamics, and final destination.

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